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Food insecurity as a supply chain problem. Evidence and lessons from the production and supply of bananas in Uganda

Scientific African, 2019
Despite agriculture being the main economic activity in Uganda, increasing food prices within the country point to the growing challenge of food insecurity.
Francis Ssennoga, Godfrey Mugurusi, Pros Nagitta Oluka   +2 more
doaj   +1 more source

Cumulative Social Disadvantage and Disease Activity in Juvenile Idiopathic Arthritis: A Childhood Arthritis and Rheumatology Research Alliance Registry Study

Arthritis Care &Research, EarlyView.
Objective Social determinants of health (SDOH) contribute to juvenile idiopathic arthritis (JIA) disparities, but most studies have assessed SDOH independently rather than cumulatively across individual, family, and neighborhood levels. Using a socioecological framework, we investigated the relationship among cumulative social disadvantage ...
William Daniel Soulsby, John Boscardin, Andrea Knight, Daniel B. Horton, Karine Toupin‐April, Emily von Scheven, on behalf of the Childhood Arthritis and Rheumatology Research Alliance (CARRA) Registry Investigators and for the CARRA Health Equity Work Group, R. Aamir, K. Abulaban, A. Adams, C. Aguiar Lapsia, H. Ahmed, S. Akoghlanian, A. AlBijadi, E. Allenspach, M. Alpizar, G. Amarilyo, M. Amoruso, S. Angeles‐Han, S. Ardoin, S. Armendariz, N. Aviran Dagan, I. Balboni, S. Balevic, S. Ballinger, S. Baluta, L. Barillas‐Arias, L. Barillas‐Arias, M. Basiaga, K. Baszis, M. Becker, A. Begezda, E. Beil, H. Bell‐Brunson, H. Benham, S. Benseler, L. Bermudez‐Santiago, W. Bernal, T. Bigley, C. Bingham, B. Binstadt, C. Black, B. Blackmon, M. Blakley, J. Bohnsack, A. Boneparth, H. Bradfield, J. Bridges, E. Brooks, M. Brothers, D. Brown, H. Brunner, L. Buckley, Mary Buckley, Meredith Buckley, H. Bukulmez, D. Bullock, A. Cancino, S. Canna, L. Cannon, S. Canny, V. Cartwright, E. Chalom, Johanna Chang, Joyce Chang, M. Chang, A. Chang‐Hoftman, A. Chen, P. Chiraseveenuprapund, K. Ciaglia, M. Cidon, D. Co, E. Cohen, R. Connor, K. Cook, A. Cooper, J. Cooper, K. Corbin, C. Correll, R. Cron, M. Curry, A. Dagci, A. Dalrymple, E. Datyner, T. Davis, D. De Ranieri, J. Dean, C. DeCoste, F. Dedeoglu, M. DeGuzman, N. Delnay, E. L. DeSantis, R. Devine, M. Dhalla, A. Dhanrajani, D. Dissanayake, B. Dizon, J. Drew, K. Driest, Q. Du, E. Duncan, K. Dunnock, D. Durkee, J. Dvergsten, A. Eberhard, K. Ede, B. Edelheit, C. Edens, M. Elder, Y. Elzaki, C. Failing, D. Fair, L. Favier, B. Feldman, J. Fennell, I. Ferguson, P. Ferguson, C. Figueroa, E. Flanagan, L. Fogel, E. Fox, M. Fox, L. Franklin, R. Fuhlbrigge, J. Fuller, T. Futch‐West, S. Gagne, M. Geiszler, D. Gerstbacher, M. Gilbert, A.C. Gironella, D. Glaser, I. Goh, S. Gorry, N. Goswami, B. Gottlieb, T. Graham, S. Grevich, T. Griffin, A. Grim, A. Grom, M. Guevara, L. Guzman, T. Hahn, O. Halyabar, E. Hammelev, T. Hammond, S. Haro, J. Harris, O. Harry, J. Hausmann, A. Hay, K. Hays, K. Hayward, L. Henderson, M. Henrickson, A. Hersh, L. Hiraki, M. Hiskey, P. Hobday, C. Hoffart, M. J. Holland, M. Hollander, S. Hong, D. Horton, J. Hsu, A. Huber, J. Huggins, J. Hui‐Yuen, M. Ibarra, A. Imlay, L. Imundo, C. Inman, A. Jackson, K. James, G. Janow, Y. Jiang, L. Johnson, N. Johnson, J. Jones, D. Kafisheh, K. Kaidar, S. Kasinathan, R. Kaur, E. Kessler, B. Kienzle, S. Kim, Y. Kimura, D. Kingsbury, M. Kitcharoensakkul, J. Klauss, K. Klein, M. Klein‐Gitelman, A. Knight, L. Kovalick, D. Krajewski, C. Kremer, T. LaFlam, B. Lang, S. Lapidus, B. Lapin, A. Lasky, E. Lawson, R. Laxer, A. Lee, Patricia Lee, Pui Lee, T. Lee, E. Leisinger, L. Lentini, M. Lerman, Y. Levinsky, D. Levy, S. Li, S. Lieberman, L. Lim, E. Limenis, C. Lin, N. Ling, G. Lionetti, R. Livny, M. Lo, A. Long, M. Lopez‐Peña, D. Lovell, S. Lvovich, A. Lytch, M. Ma, A. Machado, J. MacMahon, J. Madison, M. Mannion, C. Manos, L. Mansfield, B. Marston, K. Marzan, T. Mason, S. Matossian, L. McAllister, K. McBrearty, D. McCurdy, K. McDaniels, J. McDonald, L. McIntosh, E. Meidan, E. Mellins, Z. Mian, P. Miettunen, M. Miller, D. Milojevic, R. Mitacek, R. Modica, S. Mohan, K. Moore, T. Moore, L. Moorthy, J. Moreno, E. Morgan, A. Moyer, B. Murante, A. Murphy, E. Muscal, O. Mwizerwa, A. Najafi, K. Nanda, L. Nassi, S. Nativ, M. Natter, J. Neely, L. Newhall, A. Nuyen, P. Nigrovic, J. Nocton, B. Nolan, A. Nowakowski, K. Nowicki, R. Oakes, E. Oberle, S. Ogbonnaya‐Whittesley, E. Ogbu, M. Oliver, R. Olveda, K. Onel, A. Orandi, J. Padam, N. Pan, J. Pandya, S. Panupattanapong, A. Pappo Toledano, J. Patel, P. Patel, A. Patrick, S. Patrizi, S. Paul, J. Perfetto, M. Perron, M. Peskin, C. Pinotti, L. Ponder, R. Pooni, S. Prahalad, M. Quinlan‐Waters, J. Rafko, H. Rahimi, S. Ramsey, R. Randell, L. Ray, Ann Reed, Annelle Reed, H. Reid, D. Reiff, I. Reyhan, B. Richard, M. Riebschleger, E. Rife, M. Riskalla, A. Robinson, L. Robinson, L. Rodgers, M. Rodriquez, D. Rogers, T. Ronis, A. Rosado, M. Rosenkranz, N. Rosenwasser, H. Rothermel, D. Rothman, E. Rothschild, K. Rouster ‐ Stevens, T. Rubinstein, N. Ruth, S. Sabbagh, R. Sadun, L. Santiago, V. Saper, A. Sarkissian, L. Scalzi, J. Schahn, K. Schikler, A. Schlefman, B. Schlichting, H. Schmeling, E. Schmitt, G. Schulert, C. Schutt, C. Seper, B. Shaham, R. Sheets, A. Shehab, S. Shenoi, M. Sherman, J. Shirley, M. Shishov, N. Singer, V. Sivaraman, E. Sloan, C. Smith, J. Smith, E. Smitherman, J. Soep, M. B. Son, C. Spencer, L. Spiegel, J. Spitznagle, H. Srinivasalu, H. Stapp, A. Stephens, Y. Sterba Rakovchik, S. Stern, B. Stevens, R. Stevenson, C. Stingl, M. Stoll, E. Stringer, S. Sule, J. Sullivan, R. Sundel, M. Sutter, C. Swaffar, N. Swayne, T. Symington, G. Syverson, A.M. Szymanski, S. Taber, R. Tal, A. Tambralli, A. Taneja, T. Tanner, S. Tarvin, A. Taxter, M. Tesher, T. Thakurdeen, A. Theisen, G. Thieroff, B. Thomas, L. Thomas, N. Thomas, L. Timmerman, T. Ting, C. Todd, D. Toib, K. Torok, H. Tory, M. Toth, E. Treemarcki, S. Tse, T. Tse, C. Tsin, J. Twachtman‐Bassett, M. Twilt, T. Valcarcel, R. Valdovinos, A. Vallee, H. Van Mater, S. Vandenbergen, C. Varghese, N. Vasquez, P. Vega‐Fernandez, J. Verbsky, R. Verstegen, E. von Scheven, S. Vora, L. Wagner‐Weiner, D. Wahezi, S. Wakefield, B. Walker, S. Wallgren, H. Walters, M. Waterfield, J. Weiss, P. Weiss, E. Wershba, V. Westheuser, K. Widrick, C. Williams, S. Wong, S. Wooldridge, L. Woolnough, T. Wright, E. Wu, A. Yalcindag, R. Yeung, K. Yomogida, A. Zeft, Y. J. Zhang, Y. D. Zhao, Z. Zheng, A. Zhu, C. Zic   +448 more
wiley   +1 more source

Learning instance-specific counterfactual models for continuous treatments using hypernetworks

Frontiers in Artificial Intelligence
In recent years, non-linear machine learning techniques have attracted increasing attention for estimating treatment effects from observational data. While most existing methods focus on binary treatment scenarios, the estimation of treatment effects for
Roger Pros, Jordi Vitrià
doaj   +1 more source

New Evaluation Procedure for Multi-Dimensional Mechanical Strains and Tangent Moduli of Breast Implants: IDEAL IMPLANT^® Structured Breast Implant Compared to Silicone Gel Implants

Bioengineering, 2019
The IDEAL IMPLANT® Structured Breast Implant is a dual lumen saline-filled implant with capsular contracture and deflation/rupture rates much lower than single-lumen silicone gel-filled implants.
Harold J. Brandon, Larry S. Nichter, Dwight D. Back   +2 more
doaj   +1 more source

Effects of Causal Beliefs About Gout on Public Views About Gout Management: A Randomized Experimental Study

Arthritis Care &Research, EarlyView.
Objective Despite well‐described biologic causes, the public views unhealthy lifestyle choices as the primary cause of gout. This study investigated how causal beliefs about gout influence the public's views about its management. Methods In a randomized study, 201 members of the public viewed one of two 2‐minute videos about gout.
Rachel Murdoch, Borislav Mihov, Anne Horne, Keith J. Petrie, Gregory D. Gamble, Lachlan Fleck, Nicola Dalbeth   +6 more
wiley   +1 more source

Preventing Spurious Interactions: A New Inductive Bias for Accurate Treatment Effect Estimation

IEEE Access
In recent years, the use of non-linear machine learning techniques to estimate treatment effects from observational data has gained significant attention.
Roger Pros, Jordi Vitria
doaj   +1 more source

Characteristics and Outcomes of Male Participants in a Multicenter Longitudinal Australian Study Cohort

Arthritis Care &Research, EarlyView.
Objective The aim of this study was to determine the differences in demographic, serologic, and clinical characteristics between male and female patients with systemic sclerosis (SSc) in an Australian cohort. Methods This was a retrospective observational study using data from the Australian Scleroderma Cohort Study.
Emily Lin, Dylan Hansen, Laura Ross, Gene‐Siew Ngian, Susanna Proudman, Gabor Major, Maryam Tabesh, Mandana Nikpour, Jennifer Walker, Lauren Host, Nava Ferdowsi, Alannah Quinlivan, Wendy Stevens, Joanne Sahhar, Diane Apostolopoulos   +14 more
wiley   +1 more source

Multilinear representations of Free PROs

, 2018
We describe a structure of PRO on hypermatrices. This structure allows us to define multilinear representations of PROs and in particular of free Pros.
Laugerotte, Éric, Mignot, Ludovic, Laugerotte, É., Luque, J.-G., Nicart, F., Nicart, Florent, Luque, Jean-Gabriel, Mignot, L.   +7 more
core   +1 more source

Facilitating Expedited Drug Approval—the Past, Present, and Future of Clinical Trials for Pediatric Rheumatic Disease

Arthritis Care &Research, EarlyView.
Pamela F. Weiss, Hermine I. Brunner
wiley   +1 more source

The Association of Physical Function With Psychosocial Patient‐Reported Outcomes in People With Systemic Lupus Erythematosus

Arthritis Care &Research, EarlyView.
Objective To evaluate how modifiable psychosocial factors and fatigue relate to physical functioning in patients with systemic lupus erythematosus (SLE). Methods In this cross‐sectional study of two demographically distinct cohorts (Approaches to Positive, Patient‐Centered Experiences of Aging with Lupus [APPEAL] and California Lupus Epidemiology Study
Mrinalini Dey, Jessica Fitzpatrick, Maria Dall'Era, Charmayne Dunlop‐Thomas, Courtney Hoge, S. Sam Lim, Patricia P. Katz, Jinoos Yazdany, Laura C. Plantinga   +8 more
wiley   +1 more source